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Paradox, v. 1, issue 2, Fall 1942

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PARADOX                                             15

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Art Widner, Jr., 25 Arnold Street, Quincy, Mass.
    ---.As to Paradox, it is just about the neatest, well-done, legible first issue of a hectoed mag I have ever seen, with the exceptions of Snide and Nepenthe may their papery souls rest in peace!
   I hope you aren't going to devote your sheet entirely to time-travel. That's carrying specialization a little too far. It might be a good idea, tho, to devote each issue exclusively to some particular branch of stf or fantasy if you can round up the material.
   Washington's article shows he hasn't learned how to think yet. But he shows promise. His first paragraph is easily explained by "branched" time. It is an impossibility with "single" time. The thing both of you ignored about the time "rut" was that the person in such a rut would be completely independent of normal time. Just as a man on a treadmill could walk forever and get nowhere. When the end of the world and everything else (if such a thing can happen) comes, he will still be going around and around in his little circle of time. 
   One point nobody ever brings up is the factor of aging. Is the TT always rejuvenated to the same physical condition each time he comes around to the "starting" point, as he was when he first entered the circle? After all, altho he did return to the same instant and so was absent "no time" his heart kept on beating, and his lungs kept working, and kidneys kept eliminating waste matter, etc. The process of aging is actually the only way we have of measuring time, that is at all dependable. And fundamentally, it goes back to a matter of motion. No motion, no aging, no time. 
   I adhere to the theory that time has no material existence. It is only a purely mental concept invented by man for his convenience, like the "x" in an algebraic equation. 
   As for Fortier's parrotted claptrap, it'd be far more sensible to say that motion was the fourth dimension rather than time. Ever see a time exposure of a busy city street?

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PARADOX 15 PARA-DUCKS from: Art Widner, Jr., 25 Arnold Street, Quincy, Mass. ---.As to Paradox, it is just about the neatest, well-done, legible first issue of a hectoed mag I have ever seen, with the exceptions of Snide and Nepenthe may their papery souls rest in peace! I hope you aren't going to devote your sheet entirely to time-travel. That's carrying specialization a little too far. It might be a good idea, tho, to devote each issue exclusively to some particular branch of stf or fantasy if you can round up the material. Washington's article shows he hasn't learned how to think yet. But he shows promise. His first paragraph is easily explained by "branched" time. It is an impossibility with "single" time. The thing both of you ignored about the time "rut" was that the person in such a rut would be completely independent of normal time. Just as a man on a treadmill could walk forever and get nowhere. When the end of the world and everything else (if such a thing can happen) comes, he will still be going around and around in his little circle of time. One point nobody ever brings up is the factor of aging. Is the TT always rejuvenated to the same physical condition each time he comes around to the "starting" point, as he was when he first entered the circle? After all, altho he did return to the same instant and so was absent "no time" his heart kept on beating, and his lungs kept working, and kidneys kept eliminating waste matter, etc. The process of aging is actually the only way we have of measuring time, that is at all dependable. And fundamentally, it goes back to a matter of motion. No motion, no aging, no time. I adhere to the theory that time has no material existence. It is only a purely mental concept invented by man for his convenience, like the "x" in an algebraic equation. As for Fortier's parrotted claptrap, it'd be far more sensible to say that motion was the fourth dimension rather than time. Ever see a time exposure of a busy city street?